Everyone gets credit when they add new issues, titles, characters, creators and so on. But what people don't typically get recognized for is when they provide additional information to existing entries. So I thought it might be fun to see what people are adding to enhance what's already there. If you post on this thread, try keeping your changes to one post and just edit it with new updates

every wed when uthor and i get our comics we always do a a high quality scan of the covers and put in a 600px wide cover in the database... although half the time we just replace someones retarded 200px wide one that they put in there earlier in the day. i do it everytime on amazing spider-man. its usually after midnight wed when i put it in and there is always a dumbo 300 px cover or less in there.

in addition to that ive been replacing all kinds of random low quality low res covers with a nice 600px wide one with actual scans of the book i own.

Last edited by angeltread on Fri May 23, 2008 9:39 am, edited 1 time in total.

I want to give a HUGE shout-out to Spid for filling in so many characters in the Transformers (Marvel) series. He beat me to the punch because I got majorly busy with some personal life stuff the last part of 07, and he's done an awesome job tracking down appearances and the like.

angeltread wrote:every wed when uthor and i get our comics we always do a a high quality scan of the covers and put in a 600px wide cover in the database... although half the time we just replace someones retarded 200px wide one that they put in there earlier in the day. i do it everytime on amazing spider-man. its usually after midnight wed when i put it in and there is always a dumbo 300 px cover or less in there.

in addition to that ive been replacing all kinds of random low quality low res covers with a nice 600px wide one with actual scans of the book i own.

What do you use for compressing the files? I find that with Save for Web in Photoshop, using a cover image that is only 450 px wide I have to lower the quality to about 50% in order to get it under the 100kb limit. How do you get 600 px images saved at 100kb without them looking all low res?

Since I'm adding my Penthouse Comix issues to my database I've been filling in the individual stories' info as I go along. Painful, I know, taking time to skim through each issue with its drawings of females. Oh, the horror! Needless to say it's not going fast I'm even replacing some of the smaller covers.

I've added many of the characters for Scud Disposable Assasin and even some images and better covers.

Darth Kramer,
I added a lot of characters to Starman a while back (at least the ones I considered worth my time). The O'Dares were underrepresented and none of Shade's journal entries were present. Excellent series btw. It could always benefit from another once over of the entries. I never could find a last name of Charity the fortune teller. Also, I passed over the carnival characters.

Fnord Serious wrote:What do you use for compressing the files? I find that with Save for Web in Photoshop, using a cover image that is only 450 px wide I have to lower the quality to about 50% in order to get it under the 100kb limit. How do you get 600 px images saved at 100kb without them looking all low res?

For my purposes, Photoshop's "Save For Web" feature does all the heavy lifting for me. The trick is to scan the image in at a decent resolution (I use 300 dpi when I do my covers) before you start editing them. A typical comic cover that I scan at 300 dpi gives me a pixel width generally greater than 1200 px, so my first job when I do a "Save To Web" is to drop that to 600 px width. That takes away an enormous amount of the file size right there. The higher the resolution the image was scanned at, though, the lower you can set Photoshop's image quality percentage without getting that "low res" look. So start with larger and better quality, and you can scale those images down a lot further than if you scan at the default screen resolution of 72 dpi and tend to scale down from there.

Hope that helps!

Edit: Also, I'm adding some reviews for "Transformers" issues. Slow going, but I managed to put in three last night.

Fnord Serious wrote:What do you use for compressing the files? I find that with Save for Web in Photoshop, using a cover image that is only 450 px wide I have to lower the quality to about 50% in order to get it under the 100kb limit. How do you get 600 px images saved at 100kb without them looking all low res?

For my purposes, Photoshop's "Save For Web" feature does all the heavy lifting for me. The trick is to scan the image in at a decent resolution (I use 300 dpi when I do my covers) before you start editing them. A typical comic cover that I scan at 300 dpi gives me a pixel width generally greater than 1200 px, so my first job when I do a "Save To Web" is to drop that to 600 px width. That takes away an enormous amount of the file size right there. The higher the resolution the image was scanned at, though, the lower you can set Photoshop's image quality percentage without getting that "low res" look. So start with larger and better quality, and you can scale those images down a lot further than if you scan at the default screen resolution of 72 dpi and tend to scale down from there.

Hope that helps!

Edit: Also, I'm adding some reviews for "Transformers" issues. Slow going, but I managed to put in three last night.

*huggles*Areala

My usual method:
• Scan at 300 dpi
• Do any necessary touch-up and color adjustment
• Reduce image size to 72 dpi, resulting in a pixel width of about 450 px
• Save for Web, usually at 50% in order to hit the 100 kb limit

Maybe the difference is that I have the pixel size linked to dpi (Resample Image, IIRC), so when I drop the resolution it also drops the image size? I guess I'll try changing some of my settings in the Image Size dialog box.

I've been putting these in, along with whatever info I can put in regarding articles, who wrote them, etc, as well as the various covers (no scanner though, unfortunately). It's been slow going, but it'll get done eventually.